Question: How can we pray and ask the Creator for anything when first, He knows everything in advance anyway? Second, His law is immutable, everything is predetermined by Him, is fixed and cannot be changed, so everything is actually already done by definition. Third, how can a tiny creature who can’t even see one hundredth of the general picture ask for anything or even more incomprehensible is how can he demand something if this demand is for bestowal?

Answer: Because the request changes you and your attitude toward the Creator and brings you closer to Him.
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Question: Sometimes when I try to pray and imagine the Creator before me, I want to disappear. How can I turn to the Creator? I feel that He is almighty and that He will always forgive me, but, at the same time, I always feel that I am defective when I turn to Him. Even if I keep trying to be nice to others and to justify them, I still feel filthy when I pray. What should I do?

Answer: The Creator has created the defects that you feel and your job is to perceive exactly what these defects are and ask to be purified of them.
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Question: For what purpose was the system of the expression of our thoughts in spirituality created?

Answer: Everything developed from the mutual cooperation of two forces, reception and bestowal, with the purpose of creating the system of a soul that could be composed of these two opposing characteristics (forces), without being dependent upon the Creator. Other than the beginning and the goal of creation, nothing was predetermined; rather, everything derives from the initial data out of necessity.
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Question: Our lives are so primitive: working, going back home, eating dinner, and going to sleep, waking up in the morning and going back to work. And you talk about some kind of “upper world”!

I would like to see it, but when I look up, I see only the ceiling. Is it possible to change something in my life? Where is this upper world?

Answer: When talking about the upper world, which is located above our world, the wisdom of Kabbalah doesn’t mean an ordinary height, as if it were a ceiling or stars in the sky; this is talking about inner and higher human characteristics. Sometimes we say: “What a tall person, he is above everyone,” but we don’t mean his height. Napoleon was a meter and a half tall, at the same time, he was a great personality. So it is first necessary to clarify, what “low” and “high” mean.

In Kabbalah, “higher” means “higher” according to characteristics. Higher characteristics are bestowal, love, connection, and unity. And if we indicate that a person is low and inferior, we are referring to his dismal characteristics, not height.

So we call the spiritual world the upper world because love and unity reside there. And to approach it is possible specifically thanks to connection and unity.

Why don’t we feel the Creator? Because there is no unity between us. If we want to feel the force that surrounds, envelops, and includes all of creation within it, we need to connect and to become as one.

The wisdom of Kabbalah says that even if ten people connect and unite as one person, then they will feel the upper force, the upper world. It is specifically this connection that we try to implement in Kabbalistic groups.

And this is the essence of the method that is described in the original books of Kabbalah like The Book of Zohar and the original books by the Ari and Baal HaSulam.
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM, 9/6/15

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Question: You receive a lot of criticism on your position that Kabbalah isn’t a religion and has no connection to Judaism. Please explain to me why the great Kabbalists who lived in our times Baal HaSulam and Rabash were Orthodox Jews and in no way said that God is just nature and not a personality.

Answer: Baal HaSulam explained this in the best way in his article, “The Essence of Religion and Its Purpose.” We know more from Ramchal (Moshe Chaim Luzzatto) about the wisdom of Kabbalah for people who are not Jewish. And all of the wisdom of Kabbalah speaks only about the development of love for others, and religion talks about the carrying out of corporeal Mitzvot (commandments).

The definition of the wisdom of Kabbalah is: a system to reveal the Creator to the created beings in this world. Religion doesn’t aspire to achieve the same goal (revelation of the Creator through love of others) as Kabbalah. Thus it is not the same thing.

Thus your proposal that God is a personality simply makes me wonder if maybe you are an idol worshipper.
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Question: What is your opinion about the invasion of migrants and refugees into Europe? What will happen to Europe? What does the wisdom of Kabbalah say about this?

Answer: Even without knowledge of the wisdom of Kabbalah, we see that conquest always ends such that as much time passes, even after several centuries, the conquerors and the conquered switch places.

Besides this, Europe is in great debt due to its past, a debt towards itself and towards those people it conquered. Therefore, it is not necessary to look at the migrants as barbarians and at the Europeans as suffering unfortunates. In the meantime, the world has not changed; more precisely, our egoistic nature has not been corrected.
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Question: Can you please tell me how the daily morning lesson at 3:00 am in Israel affects a person?

Answer: New spiritual attributes are developed in a person when he systematically participates in the lessons, which he then needs to develop in the group of friends parallel to the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah. It is impossible to grow spiritually without the daily participation in the lessons.
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Question: I have had unusual moments in life that I don’t know how to explain. An example of this is when I have needed to make a “Yes-No” decision, and I felt, knew, or wanted to say, “No,” but I was terribly afraid of saying this.

And suddenly for a few moments, I saw my future if I were to say, “Yes,” and I saw and felt fear and an anxiety that was much stronger than the fear of saying “No,” so I said, “No.”

There were more situations in which I acted in an apparent split. Logic told me one thing, whereas the body did something else and said something else, something that I would never have said or done. All of these events changed my life drastically.

I suspect that this happens to all people, but they simply don’t pay attention to this. my question is: What is this? From where does this intervention come that seems external to me?

Answer: We are constantly under external influences, since there is simply nothing else. More precisely, this is internal influence. It builds in us a feeling of this world and of ourselves. The wisdom of Kabbalah reveals to us the possibilities of influencing this source of feeling about ourselves and our world and for us becoming the builders of the world and of everything that is felt in us, which is Olam Ein Sof.
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Question: People ask you questions about different issues on the Internet. Some are worried about the issue of autism in children, others worry that a war may break out, and others about the economic situation, etc. Do you give concrete answers to these questions or do you give general answers?

Answer: The point is that humanity has been facing all these issues for centuries. If these issues are so ordinary and concern each of us, why hasn’t anyone found an answer to these questions by now? It is because a person must find the answer to these questions inside him and it is impossible to give someone the answer. A person has to change himself in order to do so!

This isn’t actually such a big problem because it can be solved in a discussion circle with people who conduct it according to a certain method, and then we can see how we can change the world. We will feel that we suddenly have a tool for changing and correcting the world and it will give every person the specific answer to any question he may have.
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From an Interview on RTN, New York, 7/21/15

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Question: It has been said that the Creator is suffering much more than we do because He has to conceal Himself and send sufferings to us. Does this mean that the Creator is alive? If not, then the notion “to please the Creator” doesn’t make sense.

Answer: Everything we sense is only inside us even though it seems to us that it exists outside of us.

Therefore, the Creator in Hebrew is Bore from the words “Bo – come and Re – see.” It means, “attain the Creator according to your spiritual properties.” The wisdom of Kabbalah explains how one can reveal them within oneself.

As a result, everything is explained through a person’s words and feelings, the way a person feels it rather than the way it’s sensed outside of him, by the Creator. Moreover, there is no Creator outside of the person!
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